Indra provides technological solutions for airlines

The solutions that Indra is developing its Software Labs Badajoz, Ciudad Real and Valencia and in the center of Seville have become reference technology to manage the business of the major airlines in the world, thanks to its commitment to the location, which it is supported by years of implementation and cutting-edge projects.

Badajoz, Ciudad Real and Valencia are part of the global network of Software Labs of Indra, where more than 5,000 professionals across 23 centers (eight in Spain and 15 in other countries) develop products that make Indra a world leader in advanced solutions .

The technology company has successfully developed major projects for airlines around the world, working in all areas of its operational and business cycle, and offers a wide range of solutions to improve the management and profitable business processes in the airline industry.

Aware of the increased mobility and Internet penetration, and change caused by users in their search for flight, Indra provides solutions with high added value, encourages the digital presence of companies and makes their online channel into a competitive lever, differential and sustainable, through innovative products and services focused on improving web positioning and customer experience.

To do so, bet on an effective strategy for reducing costs through technological upgrading and convergence of channels, while accompanying the traveler in your search process and provides the necessary tools to make your trip easier, profitable and pleasurable.

The center Indra Software Labs in Badajoz opened in 2004 and has grown steadily since then, reaching a workforce of over 300 professionals. Systems for the aviation industry are widely known in the market for being implanted in reference customers in Spain and Europe and routes leading destinations worldwide.

Among its capabilities include the development of e-commerce portals, managing flows purchase, SEO positioning or corporate web development and enterprise. It also works in the FEEP Booking Engine Suitair of Minsait solution, the business unit Indra that responds to the challenges posed by the digital transformation, which allows airlines to fully manage their sites at the same time the traveler improves your experience buy, the more actively involved in managing their travel and access other services and complementary products.

Another of the “leading” solutions internationally that develop in Badajoz are management systems electronic toll highways operating in Texas and Portugal; the work of graphic design for aircraft and helicopter simulators Indra supplies worldwide; or iONE, its solution to provide support to all activities of the value chain of life insurance companies already established in Spain and Brazil sector.

FlyDubai FZ981 Final Research

Experts from the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC acronym), together with its US and Emirati colleagues, finished reading voice recorder was in the cockpit of the Boeing 737-800 that crashed Flydubai in March in the Rostov airport with 62 people on board

“Reading the CVR (recorder cockpit voice) and transcription (a total of 2 hours 3 minutes and 49 seconds of recording) were conducted between May 28 and May 12, 2016 at the headquarters of IAC in cooperation with US representatives and US, “says a note published Monday on the website of the entity.

The cockpit voice recorder were identified with the help of pilots and transcription Flydubai gave the research team. All parties, according to the statement, will keep in touch and continue exchanging information in accordance with the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

The Boeing 737-800 Flydubai airline performing the flight FZ981 Dubai to Rostov, crashed at the destination airport during landing in low visibility conditions at dawn on 19 March. In the plane crash died FlyDubai of 62 people.

Aserca Airlines expands Caribbean destinations

Aserca Airlines opens new route to Curacao, get a second flight to the Dominican and adapts itinerary domestic flights in Venezuela

The airline expands its destinations to the Caribbean to consolidate its presence in a growing market and great interest for tourism and business travel.

Aserca Airlines continues its expansion plans to the Caribbean and is open from May a new route to the island of Curacao, and a second frequency to Santo Domingo, allowing Venezuelans to expand their options moving abroad and connect from the Caribbean island and the Dominican Republic with other international destinations for their business and leisure travelers.

Passengers who choose to Aserca Airlines as its air transport to travel to Curacao have available frequencies on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Meanwhile, the second route to Santo Domingo is available every day of the week except Saturday.

New national itinerary

With the firm intention of providing greater comfort to passengers, Aserca Airlines adapted from the May 23, 2016 the national route and overnight stays active in Maracaibo, Valencia and Barquisimeto.

LATAM Airlines Vueling and enhance the connection between Barcelona-São Paulo

Vueling and LATAM Airlines have reported a connection agreement will help to boost long-haul flights from Barcelona Airport and thus strengthen the position of El Prat as an entry point for passengers traveling to and from the city of Sao Paulo today , Brazil.

The new agreement, which is already active in all sales channels deLATAM Airlines, will allow airline passengers to expand the supply of flights in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with connection point enBarcelona, thanks to 147 destinations in short Vuelingopera radio and a half from its main base at the airport of El Prat. In addition, the agreement allows passengers to travel with a single ticket and baggage claim directly to the final destination.

LATAM Airlines, which operates from Terminal 1 airport El Prat since October 2015, currently has four weekly flights between the Catalan capital and the city of São Paulo. From June to increase its offer a daily flight, operated with a Boeing 767 aircraft with capacity for 221 passengers.

In the words of Director of Strategy and Alliances Vueling, Fernando Estrada: “The agreement with LATAM Airlines allows Vueling continue to bring traffic to long-haul flights and intercontinental and consolidate Barcelona Airport as the most important for shorthaul flights hub and medium haul in Europe. “

For his part, Catalina Nannig, LATAM Airlines Commercial Director for Europe says: “This new partnership with Vueling allow us to offer more and better connection options between Europe and Latin America, reinforcing the importance of Barcelona on our flight network.”

Since July 2010, in connection Vueling operates flights from its main hub in Barcelona, offering more than 22,000 combinations origin and destination through El Prat. The airline replicates the same pattern of connections in Rome, its second hub since 2014, with 64 direct destinations and more than 6,000 combinations of origin and destination, reaffirming thus the success of its distinctive symbol: the Vueling-to-Vueling connections.

San Juan Airport preparing for international flights

Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 technicians will assess how to extend the pre-boarding area and how to make the most of the parking lot. This week will define the extensions of the San Juan Airport international flights

Airport Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, San Juan, adjust nourished details for the transit of passengers have since September due to added domestic and international flights by the end of El Plumerillo, Mendoza airport.

According to what explained the head of the airport, Marcelo Villán Diario La Provincia, “Monday afternoon arrive technicians Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, which will be responsible for defining the structures that are temporarily installed to provide comfort for passengers” .

“In principle two special structural tents in the North and South sides would be placed while also want to face work to expand the parking lot. This will be decided this week as the investment is made by the company and has to be all set for September “he added.

As for the incorporation of services such as more limos and companies rental cars, Villán said “is articulated with the Ministry of Tourism and Culture to give the passenger all you need. Worth noting that if the passenger will go to Mendoza must pay for their transportation. airlines will not be responsible for this expense. “

Tigerair Australia joins new pan-Asian low cost carrier alliance

Eight of Asia’s low cost carriers, including Virgin Australia-owned budget subsidiary Tigerair Australia, have broken new ground in the no-frills sector, forging an LCC alliance aimed at giving members a significant boost in network spread and lifting their ability to increase revenue. Announced in Singapore today (Monday) and known as the Value Alliance, it is the world’s first pan-regional LCC alliance. Along with Tigerair Australia, members are Cebu Pacific from the Philippines plus Cebu Pacific subsidiary Cebgo, Korea’s Jeju Air, Thailand’s Nok Air and NokScoot, Singapore budget long-haul subsidiary Scoot, Tigerair Singapore and Japan’s Vanilla Air, owned by All Nippon Airways.

Tigerair Australia chief executive Rob Sharp, in Singapore for the launch, said the alliance will provide greater value, connectivity and choice for travel throughout the Asia Pacific region as the partner airlines bring their extensive networks together. Last year, the member airlines collectively served more than 46 million travellers from 17 hubs across the region.

Sharp said the new partnership is a win-win for every Value Alliance airline delivering significant benefits for Tigerair Australia customers.

“Tigerair Australia customers will be able to view, select and book the best available fares and optional extras like meals and seat selection from any partner airline in a single transaction, directly from the Tigerair Australia website. This is a major milestone for Tigerair Australia, expanding our existing network from 21 routes and 12 destinations to span one third of the world to over 160 destinations throughout the Asia Pacific region. By working together we can enable more people to travel for less to more places than ever before in a single transaction from the convenience of each airline’s website. It’s a great fit for Tigerair Australia which is all about delivering value, choice and innovation.”

Sharp said Tigerair Australia is in the process of adapting the innovative technology developed by Air Black Box (ABB) to sell connecting fares throughout Asia Pacific on the new Value Alliance partner distribution network.

The Value Alliance airlines, who together cover a third of the earth and more than 160 destinations across the Asia Pacific region, will strengthen distribution in their non-home markets, expand their saleable networks via the provision of interline itineraries, retain their ancillary revenue opportunities and offer their customers a better, one-stop-shop experience.

Membership to the Value Alliance is by invitation only. In 2015 its member airlines collectively served more than 47 million travellers from 17 hubs.

Unlike legacy interline technologies, the ABB technology allows customers to enjoy the full suite of ancillary choices offered by LCCs – such as seat and meal selection, variable baggage allowances and other inflight features – across all partner airline sectors in a single itinerary. ABB’s ACE platform has been certified at the first stage leading to full NDC certification later this year.

It is a major development in the no-frills world. Until now the only partnerships with the ability to co-ordinate to this extent have been groups of LCCs within the same ownership structure, such as Tigerair Singapore, Scoot and NokScoot, all owned or part owned by Singapore Airlines. For the first time travellers will be able to view, select and book the best-available airfares on flights from any of the airlines in a single transaction, directly from each partner website, thanks to technology developed by ABB.

It is not known whether the alliance will eventually expand into other areas of efficiency gains such as joint maintenance or group purchasing. However, it is understood the original eight members are keen for other LCCs in the region to join up.

US-Bangla Airlines international flight to Nepal first returns ‘due to bad weather’

A Dash 8-Q400 carries 76 passengers and left the Dhaka Shahjalal International Airport in Kathmandu at 15:00 on Sunday, said the public relations officer of the airlines Sheikh Sadi Shishir. “The plane could not land at the airport in Nepal due to bad weather,” he said.

He said the plane was hovering over the airport for a while and returned to Dhaka after being denied landing. Shishir said the flight would take off again once the weather improved in Nepal.

The CEO of US-Bangla Airlines, Abdullah Al Mamun said that no flight could land in Nepal on Sunday due to bad weather.

Will New airline to Seychelles?

Following the application for an air service (transport) license and air operator certificate in the first half of 2013 by the owners of a proposed new airline, intent to trade as Seychelles Airlines, have now nearly three years passed and the progress on this application has to date not brought about a conclusion of the matter.

For a while in court, when the registration of the name, initially approved, was then rescinded, prompting the owners of the company to seek a court directive to reinstate the name, was that case dispensed with in September last year as reported here at the time. The court ruled in favour of the applicant and directed the Registrar of Companies to re-register the trade name, a decision which the government did not appeal.

However, further progress with the application process continued to be slow and the SCAA faced some criticism and allegations to which the organization’s CEO Mr. Gilbert Faure responded and in fact took his side of the story to the local media.

It is understood that the SCAA has retained the services of the UK Civil Aviation Authority on a consulting basis to deal with this case and others too due to the need for added international expertise on the matter, similar to a process Air Seychelles, the national airline, also underwent some time ago.

In February this year did then another meeting of Seychelles Airlines owners and legal representatives take place with the SCAA and the UKCAA during which reportedly added material and information was requested by the regulators, subsequently submitted on the 27th of April, just days after the annual Carnival International de Victoria had ended.

Efforts at the time to establish facts and obtain updates were not possible as a short term meeting with the SCAA could not be arranged prior to this correspondent’s departure from Mahe for Praslin and La Digue and subsequent flight back to the African mainland.

However, an update received from regular sources in Victoria suggests that the application is still not complete as far as documentation is concerned as information about the specific aircraft to be operated by the new airline remains missing, though mention of the B767-300 type has been made, just not the aircraft which is to be acquired through lease.

This saga will not end any time soon but as and when a decision is handed down by the SCAA be sure to read it right here.

Aviation fuel crisis grounds airlines in Nigeria

Travellers have been experiencing severe flight disruptions as a result of scarcity of aviation fuel in Nigeria.

Although this has been happening for a while, it got to a head on Sunday when many flights were moved and eventually cancelled, leaving thousands of passengers stranded nationwide.

Some foreign airlines took off ahead of schedule in order to fuel at the neighbouring countries, particularly Ghana.

A stranded passenger told TheCable on Monday morning: “My FirstNation flight from Lagos to Abuja was scheduled for 4pm on Sunday and was cancelled at 7.20pm. It was initially delayed by one hour before the cancellation.

“I had to wait to retrieve my bag, get refund, book hotel, get airport taxi and then check in at the hotel. So I got to the hotel at 9pm.”

TheCable learnt that an Arik flight that was scheduled for 9pm eventually took off midnight.

South African Airways had to cancel its Lagos-Johannesburg flight altogether, while Delta Airlines took off ahead of its Lagos-Atlanta schedule in order to fuel at Accra, Ghana.

All airlines experienced the delay and cancellations. A senior executive of an oil marketing company told TheCable that the problem would ease as soon as there is forex to import aviation fuel.

“We have been experiencing challenges trying to procure forex to import products. It is a big challenge,” he said.

The Dubai Airshow 2019 will build on the overwhelming success of the last event which drew
79,380 trade visitors from around the world, 1,200 exhibitors from 63 countries, 1,603 international
and regional media and an order book in excess of US$ 113.8 billion.

IBAS 2019 / INTERNATIONAL BRAZIL AIR SHOW

The first Brazilian event focused on the international aerospace industry and airport infrastructure, IBAS – International Brazil Air Show will bring together leaders of the global air segment to discuss the development of the sector in Latin America.

The 2nd Edition of IBAS International Brazil Air Show will be held on September 11th, 12th and 13th, 2019, at the GRU Airport – São Paulo International Airport. The first Brazilian event focused on the international aerospace industry and airport infrastructure, IBAS will bring together leaders of the global air segment to discuss the development of the sector in Latin America.

E-MAIL > comercial@ibas.aero
TEL > +55 11 3032 5633

WEB > www.internationalbrazilairshow.com.br

MAKS 2019

MAKS 2019 will take place between August 27-September 1, 2019 in Zhukovsky

MAKS (International Aviation and Space Exhibition) is an international air show organization that takes place at Zhukovsky International Airport, home of the Gromov Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky, located 40 km (25 miles) southeast of Moscow, Russian Federation. The event is organized by the Government of Moscow and Aviasalon. The first show, Mosaeroshow-92, was held in 1992. Since 1993, the air show was renamed MAKS and is held every two years in odd years.

MAKS is an important event for the Russian aviation industry and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Although it started primarily as an entertainment event, the program soon became a market in which Russian aerospace companies could negotiate export contracts and Russian airlines could establish foreign contacts.

The main business of the Aviasalon JSC organizer is the preparation and management of international aviation and space halls (MAKS), exhibitions, round tables, conferences and other scientific and technical, commercial and cultural events, both in Russia and abroad.

Paris Air Show 2019

The 53rd Paris Air Show will meet between June 17-23, 2019

The International Exhibition of Aeronautics and Space 53rd Paris Air Show is organized by SIAE, a subsidiary of the Group of French Aeronautics and Space Industries (GIFAS). The 53rd edition of the fair will take place at the Le Bourget exhibition center from 17-23 June 2019 and all the players in the global industry will meet again to discuss the latest technological innovations. The first 4 days of the show will be reserved for professionals and 3 days for the general public.